Grade 3

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Typical Course of Study

Multiple Objective

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Fine Arts

Social Studies

  • Holidays and folk customs

  • Native Americans

  • Explorers and pioneers

  • Appreciation of different cultures, races, religions

  • History and development of local community

  • Community helpers

  • Consumers and producers

  • Sources of food and clothing

  • Shelters of animals and people

  • History and development of transportation

  • History and development of communication

  • Citizenship and social responsibility

  • Basic human needs and wants

  • Local geography and topography

  • U. S. geography and regions

  • The continents

  • Flat maps and globes

Science

  • Animal helpers

  • Dinosaurs

  • Life cycle

  • Plants and animals of the desert

  • Plants and animals of the sea

  • Common birds, trees, and flowers

  • Forest plants

  • Conservation of plants and animals

  • Weather and climate

  • Earth's changing surface

  • Magnets and electricity

  • Compass

  • Gravity

  • Light and color

  • Energy and its sources

  • Force and work

  • Machines

  • Moon and stars

  • Earth satellites

  • Scientific method and scientific inquiry

Language Arts

Literature Based Units for Grade PreK-4 is a really Nice place to get teaching Ideas. The Most recent unit I am working on there is Beatrix Potter. Pretty soon there will be a bunch of Copy work books and even some math Flash cards.

Free Reading and Grammar Workbook

  • Silent reading

  • Reading prose and poetry aloud

  • Oral presentations: reporting experiences orally with accuracy

  • Alphabetizing through the third letter of a word

  • Dictionary skills

  • Developing word-attack methods

  • Synonyms, antonyms, homonyms

  • Spelling

  • Beginning cursive writing

  • Concept of paragraph

  • Using period, comma, question mark, apostrophe, quotation marks

  • Writing short, original stories and poems

  • Post writing skills: editing and proofreading

  • Increasing indexing skills

Health and Safety (also see Science Areas)

  • Care of eyes and ears

  • Dental health

  • Proper balance of activities

  • Healthful leisure activities

  • Prevention and control of diseases

  • Parts of the body

  • Nutrition


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  • Health with relation to food, shelter, clothing

  • School and community health services

  • Home safety hazards

  • Safety in the community

  • Simple first aid

Mathematics

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http://www.kidzone.ws/math/grade3.htm Extra Worksheets

  • Reading and writing numbers to 5 places

  • Beginning Roman numerals

  • Rounding numbers

  • Positive and negative numbers in daily life

  • Simple fractions and equivalents

  • Properties of one

  • Numeration systems

  • Addition and subtraction facts to 25

  • Multiplication and division facts to 100

  • Perimeter, area, volume

  • Geometric constructions

  • Similar and congruent figures

  • Properties of solid figures

  • Customary and metric measurement

  • Time to 1- and 5-minute measures

  • Estimation of outcomes

  • Problems-solving analysis

  • Word problems

  • Charts and graphs